Mad Mackie
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We have digressed a bit but this is life!
Very interesting aircraft experience. There is something about those old birds that that I miss. My old Caribou 149 is still flying with the cavflight.org. We used 115/145 AVGAS in all the piston AC and the engine oil was always nasty. When 100LL was forced on us the oil looked a little better. I don't miss having to pre heat the engines though!
Fill up the oil and check the gas was an old joke, but it happened more often than we realized!
I was looking for something in my garage a while back and found a pair of my old Nomex flight gloves that were stained purple from preflight checks draining the fuel strainers, 115/145 had purple color to it.
Very interesting aircraft experience. There is something about those old birds that that I miss. My old Caribou 149 is still flying with the cavflight.org. We used 115/145 AVGAS in all the piston AC and the engine oil was always nasty. When 100LL was forced on us the oil looked a little better. I don't miss having to pre heat the engines though!
Fill up the oil and check the gas was an old joke, but it happened more often than we realized!
I was looking for something in my garage a while back and found a pair of my old Nomex flight gloves that were stained purple from preflight checks draining the fuel strainers, 115/145 had purple color to it.
